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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Highest Unemployment States Get Least “Stimulus”


“States hit hardest by the recession received only a few of the government’s first stimulus contracts, even though the glut of new federal spending was meant to target places where the economic pain has been particularly severe.” (USA Today, Thursday)

Even if the bill had been a stimulus in theory, it wouldn’t have stimulated in practice.

FEE Timely Classic
“Recycling Discredited Ideas” by Peter Lewin


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.